Deuteronomy 3-4

New King James Version

King Og Defeated^(A)

3 “Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan; and ^(B)Og king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle ^(C)at Edrei. ² And the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand; you shall do to him as you did to ^(D)Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.’

³ “So the Lord our God also delivered into our hands Og king of Bashan, with all his people, and we ^[a]attacked him until he had no survivors remaining. ⁴ And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, ^(E)all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵ All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many rural towns. ⁶ And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king ^(F)of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city. ⁷ But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.

⁸ “And at that time we took the ^(G)land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were on this side of the Jordan, from the River Arnon to Mount ^(H)Hermon ⁹ (the Sidonians call ^(I)Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir), ^10 (J)all the cities of the plain, all Gilead, and ^(K)all Bashan, as far as Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

^11 (L)“For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of ^(M)the ^[b]giants. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in ^(N)Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.

The Land East of the Jordan Divided^(O)

¹² “And this ^(P)land, which we possessed at that time, ^(Q)from Aroer, which is by the River Arnon, and half the mountains of Gilead and ^(R)its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites. ^13 (S)The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All the region of Argob, with all Bashan, was called the land of the ^[c]giants. ^14 (T)Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, ^(U)as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and ^(V)called Bashan after his own name, ^[d]Havoth Jair, to this day.)

¹⁵ “Also I gave ^(W)Gilead to Machir. ¹⁶ And to the Reubenites ^(X)and the Gadites I gave from Gilead as far as the River Arnon, the middle of the river as the border, as far as the River Jabbok, ^(Y)the border of the people of Ammon; ¹⁷ the plain also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth ^(Z)as far as the east side of the Sea of the Arabah ^(AA)(the Salt Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.

¹⁸ “Then I commanded you at that time, saying: ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. ^(AB)All you men of valor shall cross over armed before your brethren, the children of Israel. ¹⁹ But your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall stay in your cities which I have given you, ²⁰ until the Lord has given ^(AC)rest to your brethren as to you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God is giving them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may ^(AD)return to his possession which I have given you.’

²¹ “And ^(AE)I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings; so will the Lord do to all the kingdoms through which you pass. ²² You must not fear them, for ^(AF)the Lord your God Himself fights for you.’

Moses Forbidden to Enter the Land

²³ “Then ^(AG)I pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying: ²⁴ ‘O Lord God, You have begun to show Your servant ^(AH)Your greatness and Your ^[e]mighty hand, for ^(AI)what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds? ²⁵ I pray, let me cross over and see ^(AJ)the good land beyond the Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon.’

²⁶ “But the Lord ^(AK)was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me. So the Lord said to me: ‘Enough of that! Speak no more to Me of this matter. ^27 (AL)Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift your eyes toward the west, the north, the south, and the east; behold it with your eyes, for you shall not cross over this Jordan. ²⁸ But ^(AM)command^[f] Joshua, and encourage him and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you will see.’

²⁹ “So we stayed in ^(AN)the valley opposite Beth Peor.

Moses Commands Obedience

4 “Now, O Israel, listen to ^(AO)the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and ^[g]possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers is giving you. ^2 (AP)You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. ³ Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at ^(AQ)Baal Peor; for the Lord your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor. ⁴ But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you.

⁵ “Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should act according to them in the land which you go to possess. ⁶ Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is ^(AR)your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’

⁷ “For ^(AS)what great nation is there that has ^(AT)God^[h] so near to it, as the Lord our God is to us, for whatever reason we may call upon Him? ⁸ And what great nation is there that has such statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day? ⁹ Only take heed to yourself, and diligently ^(AU)keep yourself, lest you ^(AV)forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And ^(AW)teach them to your children and your grandchildren, ¹⁰ especially concerning ^(AX)the day you stood before the Lord your God in Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’

¹¹ “Then you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. ^12 (AY)And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no ^[i]form; ^(AZ)you only heard a voice. ^13 (BA)So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, ^(BB)the Ten Commandments; and ^(BC)He wrote them on two tablets of stone. ¹⁴ And ^(BD)the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might ^[j]observe them in the land which you cross over to possess.

Beware of Idolatry

^15 (BE)“Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no ^(BF)form when the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, ¹⁶ lest you ^(BG)act corruptly and ^(BH)make for yourselves a carved image in the ^[k]form of any figure: ^(BI)the likeness of male or female, ¹⁷ the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, ¹⁸ the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath the earth. ¹⁹ And take heed, lest you ^(BJ)lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, ^(BK)all the host of heaven, you feel driven to ^(BL)worship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has ^[l]given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage. ²⁰ But the Lord has taken you and ^(BM)brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be ^(BN)His people, an inheritance, as you are this day. ²¹ Furthermore ^(BO)the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that ^(BP)I would not cross over the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance. ²² But ^(BQ)I must die in this land, ^(BR)I must not cross over the Jordan; but you shall cross over and ^[m]possess ^(BS)that good land. ²³ Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, ^(BT)and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you. ²⁴ For ^(BU)the Lord your God is a consuming fire, ^(BV)a jealous God.

²⁵ “When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and ^(BW)do evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger, ^26 (BX)I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not ^[n]prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed. ²⁷ And the Lord ^(BY)will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you. ²⁸ And ^(BZ)there you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, ^(CA)which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. ^29 (CB)But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. ³⁰ When you are in ^[o]distress, and all these things come upon you in the ^(CC)latter days, when you ^(CD)turn to the Lord your God and obey His voice ³¹ (for the Lord your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor ^(CE)destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

³² “For ^(CF)ask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask ^(CG)from one end of heaven to the other, whether any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard. ^33 (CH)Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? ³⁴ Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, ^(CI)by trials, ^(CJ)by signs, by wonders, by war, ^(CK)by a mighty hand and ^(CL)an outstretched arm, ^(CM)and by great ^[p]terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? ³⁵ To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord Himself is God; ^(CN)there is none other besides Him. ^36 (CO)Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire. ³⁷ And because ^(CP)He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their ^[q]descendants after them; and ^(CQ)He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power, ^38 (CR)driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day. ³⁹ Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that ^(CS)the Lord Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. ^40 (CT)You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that ^[r]it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may ^[s]prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

Cities of Refuge East of the Jordan

⁴¹ Then Moses ^(CU)set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, ^42 (CV)that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without having hated him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might live: ^43 (CW)Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

Introduction to God’s Law

⁴⁴ Now this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel. ⁴⁵ These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which Moses spoke to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt, ⁴⁶ on this side of the Jordan, ^(CX)in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel ^(CY)defeated^[t] after they came out of Egypt. ⁴⁷ And they took possession of his land and the land ^(CZ)of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on this side of the Jordan, toward the ^[u]rising of the sun, ^48 (DA)from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, even to Mount ^[v]Sion (that is, ^(DB)Hermon), ⁴⁹ and all the plain on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the ^(DC)slopes of Pisgah.